Mr O'Sullivan travelled to Tanzania at the beginning of last year to work as a mentor to teachers at the School of St Jude in Arusha.

Set up in 2002, the school started with just three students and one teacher. Now it operates over two campuses with the first intake of students now entering the second year of high school.

Mr O'Sullivan said the experience was a rewarding one, but was often frustrating.

"In the role of a mentor you had to try and help improve the teacher's lesson presentation and get away from the chalk and talk," he said.

"There were 60 teachers to help and it took all of the first term to get around to each of them.

"With four classes a day it was quite a lengthy process."

-Read the full story in the January 21 edition of The Irrigator.